Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Holiday of Simchat Torah 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week we are celebrating the holiday of sumkas torah and the question of the week is what is the greatest simcha so on sunglass torah when we celebrate taking out the torah and dancing with the torah before we do that we recite 17 verses that talk about now we know torah is good and good is numerical for 17. so we have 17 different verses in relation to the first verse that we say is a verse from the torah that says we were given to understand with our level of dars that the yud kavofkai the infant name hashem and elokim the fine name hashem is all one a noid movade but there's nothing other than hashem now what does that mean so the rebbe explains at mount sinai hashem revealed himself and when hashem revealed himself the only thing that we saw was hashem godliness greatest revelation possible after that god gave us a torah he went back up in heaven so we have concealment we don't see anoid mulvaney we had a taste then but when mashiach comes we're going to have the total revelation of enoi now we know the altar says in tanya that when we do are avoided in this world we create the revelation and the future in other words by doing a mitzvah we create the reward of that mitzvah so for example when we create the experience of enoid mulvado that's how we will merit to have the greatest revelation of comes so what does that mean practically so the rabbi says we all know there's something which is called in all our misin all our actions we should do it for hashem and all our ways we should know hashem however we are knowing hashem in actions in our ways but ways and actions are materialistic the highest level is as the verse says atar das not that there's a world and we're serving hashem in this world but in the only real reality that exists is hashem so the answer to the question what is the source of the greatest simcha the greatest joy ain o'er when the only true reality in our life is hashem we will experience the greatest simcha this week's class is a memory of baruch bernardiere labe and yosev and rachel baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson for more information please see our website khabadswf.org have a great and happy simchas torah